In video statement posted online a group of 9 Free Syrian Army commanders said Gen. Salim Idriss dismissal is void, accusing the opposition Interim Defence Ministry of dispersing the rows of Joint Chiefs of Staff and revolutionary groups on the battlefields. The...

US Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday intervened as a political crisis in Ukraine turned deadly, calling President Viktor Yanukovych and saying he should withdraw government forces who stormed a protest camp. "Vice President Biden called Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych today to...

It was less than 20 years ago, when Hussam Zayade climbed with his friends the old walls of Daraya’s Ottoman era mosque in Syria. “We read the old scriptures on the inner dome, as if we were archaeologists, looking for a discovery,” he recalls. The Goddess of Love, the Roman ruins, the...

 The United States is opposed to the supply of shoulder-fired missiles, capable of taking down warplanes, to rebel forces in  Syria , a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday. The official, traveling with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in ...

'President and Women' sitcom has sparked outrage within the opposition ranks as well as the Assad loyalist since the YouTube series first episode has been streamed online Feb 15. The Syrian political sitcom, which produced by Zaman Alwasl newspaper, follows in a comedian...

The Syrian National Coalition  has expressed “deep concern”  over the fate of more than 200 men, evacuated from the Old City of Homs earlier this month, who are still detained by Syrian authorities. United Nations observers say 335 men were held among the 1,400 civilians...

Video — too graphic to be posted — testifies to the  horrific deaths of children  in a bombing by Syrian forces of a school in Muzayrib in Daraa Province. Other footage illustrates the brutality of the attack. ( EA world view)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Tunisia on Tuesday to praise democratic progress in the country where the "Arab Spring" began and discuss the threat of Islamist militants there. After a crisis last year brought on by the killing of two opposition...

Syrian government forces seized a village inhabited by President Bashar al-Assad's minority community from Islamist fighters in a central province on Tuesday, state media said. Insurgents including fighters from Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa and other Islamist groups had taken...

Gun battles erupted between Thai police and anti-government protesters in Bangkok on Tuesday and four people were killed and dozens wounded as authorities made their most determined effort yet to clear demonstrators from the streets. In a day of tangled developments in Thailand's...

It is an everyday occurrence at border crossings out of Syria, but for four-year-old Marwan, it must have been terrifying. After being temporarily separated from his family at the remote Hagallat crossing on Sunday, he was found by staff from the UN's refugee agency. Andrew...

Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday slammed Iraq's government as corrupt and headed by a "tyrant" while calling on citizens to vote, days after announcing his exit from politics. The televised speech seem aimed at establishing the cleric, whose political career began in...

There is devastation in several parts of Baghdad after a series of bomb attacks that killed at least two dozen people on Monday night. Nine people died in car bomb explosions that targeted mosques in the Iraqi capital’s predominantly Shi’ite districts of Amil and Karrada. In the...

Syria’s army and rebels have agreed local truces in key flashpoints around Damascus, despite regime and opposition representatives failing to make any progress in Geneva peace talks. In the southern suburb of Babila, AFP journalists Monday saw rebels and soldiers – all...

U.N. workers on Sunday found a four-year-old Syrian boy crossing the Jordanian desert to be with his parents, in the latest poignant story emerging from the country’s bitter civil war that has left more than 130,000 people dead. “Here 4 year old Marwan, who was temporarily separated...

Four members of a Syrian family were stabbed to death on Monday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, national media outlets reported. Amin Ezzedine, Alexandria’s head of security, told Egypt’s Alhayat television that after their murder, the Syrian family’s house was set on fire. The...

Syrian Revolution General Commission reported Monday sudden withdrawal for the State of Iraq and al-Sham’s militants from its strongholds in costal area. Abu Adham, battalion commander in rebel-held Salma village of Latakia Mountains, said ISIS fighters without warning...

  Al Qaeda splinter group the State of Iraq an al-Sham has tortured to death a prominent commander of Suqour al-Sham brigades in Badiyat al-Shaer in Homs province, despite the newly truce between ISIS and Suqour al-Sham Brigades two weeks ago.   Abu...

From the moment we cross the Turkish border into Syria, evidence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's draconian and brutal rule lingers. More than a month after the group was driven from the town of Addana, residents here drive through the streets, pointing out where...

The military commander of Jund al-Islam, Faisal Dawood Okla, has been killed by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the besieged village of al-Zara in Homs province, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. Okla escaped from the Lebanese...